Extract:
The Communist Party must recognise the importance of seated, meditating Buddhists – these are frontline activists engaging in a world-wide and epoch-making inner transformation that disengages the worker (here and now) from the direct effects of bourgeois exploitation. This frees the worker (here and now) even before a collective Revolution is achieved. Indeed, this Buddhist component could be the manner in which the next generation infiltrates and transcends the ever-increasingly stringent capitalist system – and its oppressive methods of surveillance, counter-Revolution, and enforced conformity. Both Marx and Engels possessed a working understanding of Buddhist ideology – but this is omitted from most post-Marxist accounts. Lenin had very little to say about it (although Buddhism is negatively mentioned in the Soviet film “1917” as some sort of Asian corruption of Russian society – despite the USSR possessing at least three Buddhist Republics) – with Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh also understanding that Buddhism had its place within the people’s struggle.
Even Che Guevara mentions that where Chinese-Cubans held sway in the Revolutionary battle for Cuba – the quality of the struggle possessed a little something “extra” in its make-up. Bear in mind that Chinese Buddhism is essentially a development of Material Confucianism – slightly modified to accommodate a foreign (Indian) influence. The point is that even if the brutal capitalists take everything away from the workers (even their clothes) and lock each individual in a cell – this is the ideal conditions for in-depth meditation practice. Nothing can stop a Buddhist so committed – and it is time that the Communist Parties of the world acknowledge the importance of the Buddhist Revolutionary Method! Finally, when studying “Philosophy of Mind” I was introduced to the Western idea that the “mind” does “not exist”. Due to thousands of years of theistic theology – the West was deluded into thinking that the mind equals the disembodied spirit – and that both were “separate” from the body.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 